Term for associations made by a reader between fictional characters and people they know

• "Term for associations made by a reader between fictional characters and people they know"

— We may call such characters 'LIFELIKE'

— Term for such associations 'IDENTIFICATION ' and the situation 'VERISIMILITUDE'

— The characters represent our 'ALTER-EGO'

and when we lose our identify in the identity of the fictional characters and love, like, pity, hate or laugh or cry as the characters do in their make-believe world, the situation may be termed "EXPERIENCE -TAKING" , a new coinage by a group of researchers of Ohio State University.

IDENTIFICATION is the proper term in the present perspective.